At the beginning of each year, the editor of the AHJ chooses a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the previous year's journals. The recipient(s) receives a plaque and a check for $300. The editor also selects two recipient(s) for Awards of Excellence, these recipients receive a check for $100.

First Place: Plaque and $300Award for Excellence: $100Award for Excellence: $100

Congratulations to the 2015 Recipients!

Martin Persson, (Western University)

Christopher Napier, (Royal Holloway, University of London)

"R. J. Chambers and the AICPA’s Postulates and Principles
Controversy: A Case of Vicarious Action"

Award for Excellence: Alan Sangster, (University of Griffith)

"Earliest Known Treatise on Double Entry Bookkeeping by Marino de
Raphaeli"

2013 Dale L. Flesher, University of Mississippi and Gary J. Previts, Case Western Reserve University

"Donaldson Brown (1885-1965): The Power of an Individual and His Ideas Over Time."

2012 Jacques Richard, University Paris Dauphine

“The Victory of the Prussian Railway Dynamic Accounting Over the Public Finance and Patrimonial Accounting Models (1838-1884): An Early Illustration of the Appearance of the Second State of Capitalist Financial Accounting and a Testimony Against the Agency and the Market for Excuses Theories"

2011 Jesse Dillard, Portland State University and Linda Ruchala, University of Nebraska-Lincoln